Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Allan McCaskill Kimbrough and Family Papers (Z/1210).
Creator/Collector: Kimbrough family.
Date(s): 1868-1934; n.d.
Size: 0.10 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff.
Provenance: Gift of Donor, of Place, State, on Date; Z/U/XXXX.XXX.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

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Preferred citation: Allan McCaskill Kimbrough and Family Papers (Z/1210), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Related Collections:

Allan McCaskill Kimbrough and Family Papers (Z/1210.001), MDAH. 
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Kimbrough-Sinclair Papers (Z/1263), MDAH.

 

Biography:

Allan McCaskill Kimbrough

The papers of Judge Allan McCaskell Kimbrough, his wife, Mary Hunter Southworth Kimbrough, and members of their family are contained in this collection. Judge Kimbrough (b. 1850) was the son of O. L. Kimbrough (1804–1881), one of the early settlers of Carrollton, and Charlotte Grey Kimbrough (b. 1825). Mary Kimbrough was the daughter of Judge Hunter H. Southworth (d. 1878) and Mary Morgan Southworth. Her brother was Louis M. Southworth, a prominent lawyer and investigator of the Manila, P. I., railway land frauds, 1914–1915. Judge Kimbrough was appointed circuit judge of the Fourth District in 1903 and was also an attorney in Greenwood. He and his family were close friends of Jefferson Davis and Varina Davis, the Judge serving as their lawyer for a number of years.

 

Scope and Content Note:

The Kimbrough collection contains twenty-one folders of family papers and correspondence, n.d., 1868–1934. There are five folders containing twenty-nine letters from Mrs. Jefferson Davis, 1902–1906. These letters are personal correspondence between Mrs. Davis and the Kimbroughs. An itemized list is in folder number 22, box 2. 

There are 35 letters from Mississippi governors, senators, congressmen and other public officials, 1870–1922. Among these are letters from the following: Theodore G. Bilbo, Pat Harrison, A. H. Longino, A. J. McLaurin, Theodore Roosevelt, J. M. Stone, James K. Vardaman and John Sharp Williams. A letter from Woodrow Wilson, January 10, 1914, was written from Pass Christian. These important letters are arranged alphabetically in six folders, with an itemized list in folder number 27, box 2.

 

Series Identification:

Series 1: Series title. Dates.

Series Description text to come.

Box 1, Folder 1